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Ibn Saud and his US partners set up ARAMCO, the Arabia-American Oil Company
Saul Bellow publishes his first novel, Dangling Man, a study of an intellectual adrift as he waits to be drafted into the army
Composer Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins work together on the ballet Fancy Free
Fancy Free becomes On the Town, a Broadway musical by Leonard Bernstein, directed by Jerome Robbins
The World Bank and IMF are conceived at an international conference in the USA, at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor co-stars with a horse in the film National Velvet
Boston writer Robert Lowell publishes his first book of poems, Land of Unlikeness
Jorge Luis Borges publishes Fictions, a collection of short stories
The separate poems forming T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets are brought together for the first time as a single volume, published in New York
An uprising in Guatemala brings in a revolutionary junta and a left-wing programme of reform
Aaron Copland's ballet Appalachian Spring has choreography by Martha Graham
US general Dwight Eisenhower is appointed to command the Allied invasion of Normandy
American marines win the island of Saipan in the Marianas, bringing Japan within range of US bombers
The first of many thousands of war brides arrive in Canada, mainly from Great Britain
Delegates from 39 nations meet at Dumbarton Oaks, near Washington DC, to plan the future United Nations
President Roosevelt, although seriously ill, is elected for a fourth term with Harry S. Truman as his vice-president
American B-29 bombers take off from the newly captured Saipan on the long trip to bomb Tokyo
Maurice 'Rocket' Richard is the first to score 50 goals in a Canadian National Hockey League season
US dramatist Tennessee Williams has his first success with The Glass Menagerie
Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, premiered in New York, derives from music written for or inspired by films
Juan Perón, professed friend of the poor in Argentina, is arrested by brother officers
A mass demonstration by trade unions in Buenos Aires results in the release of Perón
Russian-born novelist Vladimir Nabokov becomes a US citizen
American marines land on Japanese-occupied Iwo Jima, a volcanic island 650 miles southeast of Tokyo
American troops discover the German concentration camp at Buchenwald
